“History, that is, the unconscious, common, swarm life of mankind uses every moment of the life of kings as an instrument for its own ends”

“Consciously a man lives on his own account in freedom of willbut he serves as an unconscious instrument in bringing about the historical ends of humanity. An act he has once committed is irrecvocable, and that act of his, coinciding in time with millions of acts of others, has an historical value... 'The hearts of kinds are in the hand of God.' The king is the slave of history... Every action that seems to them an act of their own freewill, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined from all eternity.”

“The subject of history is the life of peoples and mankind.”

“Man lives consciously for himself, but serves as an unconscious instrument for the achievement of historical, universally human goals. ”

“Kings are the slaves of history.”

“Each time of life has its own kind of love.”

“Every heart has its own skeletons.”